List of magazines in China

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In 1898 the first women's magazine was published in China.{{cite journal|author1=Geng Song|author2=Tracy K. Lee

|title=Consumption, class formation and sexuality: Reading men's lifestyle magazines in China|journal=The China Journal|date=July 2010

|volume=64|issue=64|pages=159–177|doi=10.1086/tcj.64.20749251|jstor=20749251|s2cid=140530345}} The number of women's magazines has increased in the country since the late 1980s.{{cite journal|author1=Yang Feng|author2=Katherine Frith|title=The Growth of International Women's Magazines in China and the Role of Transnational Advertising|doi=10.1353/jmm.2008.0002|journal=Journal of Magazine and New Media Research|date=Fall 2008|volume=10|issue=1|s2cid=258607287}} In addition to national titles international magazines are also published in the country.{{cite news|author=Daniel Bardsley|title=High gloss for China's magazines|work=The National

|url=http://www.thenational.ae/business/industry-insights/high-gloss-for-chinas-magazines|access-date=26 October 2015|date=5 August 2012}} Madame Figaro,{{cite book|author=Kevin Latham|title=Pop Culture China!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle|isbn=978-1-85109-582-7

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FXgS93rYv4C&pg=PA153|year=2007|publisher=ABC-CLIO|pages=142,153|location=Santa Barbara, CA}} and Elle are among such titles both of which entered into the Chinese market in 1988.{{cite news|author=James Borton|title=Magazine licensing red-hot in China|url-status=unfit|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL16Ad01.html|archive-date=15 December 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041215211029/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL16Ad01.html|date=16 December 2004|work=Asia Times Online|access-date=11 August 2015}} In 1998 Cosmopolitan began to be circulated in the country.{{cite book|author=Barbara Mueller|title=Dynamics of International Advertising: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives|year=2011

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3pK1bx6NZDMC&pg=PA248|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-1-4331-0384-1|page=248|edition=2nd|location=New York}} Esquire is the first international men's magazine which entered the Chinese magazine market in 1999. From the 2000s several Japanese magazines began to be circulated in Chinese language in the country, including CanCam.{{cite news|title=Japanese Publishing Industry|access-date=24 April 2016|work=JETRO Japan Economic Report|date=November 2006|archive-date=6 May 2016|url-status=dead|url=https://www.jetro.go.jp/ext_images/en/reports/market/pdf/2006_25_r.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506205553/https://www.jetro.go.jp/ext_images/en/reports/market/pdf/2006_25_r.pdf}}

Total number of magazines in China was 8,889 in 2001 when China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).{{cite journal|author1=Michael Keane|author2=Christina Spurgeon|title=Advertising Industry and Culture in Post-WTO China|journal=Media International Australia|date=May 2004|volume=111|issue=111|pages=104–117|doi=10.1177/1329878X0411100111|s2cid=153590186|url=https://eprints.qut.edu.au/6746/1/6746.pdf}} Following the accession of China to the WTO advertising revenues of the magazines significantly increased. The number of foreign consumer magazines was sixty-nine in 2009.{{cite journal|author=Shuang Li|title=A New Generation of Lifestyle Magazine Journalism in China|journal=Journalism Practice|date=2012|volume=6|issue=1|pages=122–137|doi=10.1080/17512786.2011.622901|s2cid=220412116}}

The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in China. They are published in Chinese or other languages.

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